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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: but a word or two. I passed through your town at a certain time,
and received a deep offence which I had not earned. Any other man
would have been content to kill one or two of you and call it
square, but to me that would have been a trivial revenge, and
inadequate; for the dead do not SUFFER. Besides I could not kill you
all--and, anyway, made as I am, even that would not have satisfied
me. I wanted to damage every man in the place, and every woman--and
not in their bodies or in their estate, but in their vanity--the
place where feeble and foolish people are most vulnerable. So I
disguised myself and came back and studied you. You were easy game.
You had an old and lofty reputation for honesty, and naturally you
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